Guild Wars 2

Josh Davis.6015:

Hi all,

I’d like to take a moment to address some of the concerns posted since last Friday regarding the possibility of solo/duo queue.

The poll we’ll be running this week will simply ask if we should trial a solo/duo queue system during season 5. Assuming the poll passes and Season 5 is solo/duo only, we’ll monitor feedback throughout the season and then run another poll at the end of S5 to ask folks if they’d like to see the change become permanent.

“But Josh, what about people that like to queue as premades, do guild missions, etc?” An overwhelming majority of players already play as solo/duo in leagues, but that doesn’t mean we’re not thinking about the groups and the guilds. That said, unranked arena will continue to accommodate roster sizes of up to 5. Guild missions will still be able to be completed in unranked arena. Assuming the post-season 5 permanence poll passes, we’ll evaluate the need for another environment where teams can compete (based on your feedback).

Hopefully that answers some of your questions!

SOURCE Extended Off-Season and Other Updates

Assuming the poll passes and Season 5 is solo/duo …

How will work Guild Challenger League in S5 without a queue for +3 team member?
Will Guild Challenger League be removed form PvP scene?

Most likely there will not be one. At least not in the same way.

… which is GOOD!

The last challenger league was used as a stepping stone into pro league. And its design was horrible. Regardless of its purpose, you barely ever actually played other teams on the leaderboards. So the difference between the teams was not determined by how well they did in comparison to the other teams, but by how well they did vs non-teams. Seems a bit counter-intuitive? Yes it was.

The need to bring back paid tournament premade only:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Paid_Tournament_Token

People would team up for skins or gems like it was at released.

There used to be paid tournaments, which required tournament tickets to join and included gem rewards for winning teams.
These were eliminated in favor of free 2-team tournaments in the February 26th 2013 update, which also introduced a vendor that lets players exchange left-over tournament tickets for reward chests.
8-team Free Tournaments were disabled as of the 28th of March, 2013.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Structured_PvP#Trivia